Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campers and hikers in the Sierra Nevada used to encounter a husky, grim-faced man who haunted the mountains on an endless search, traveling sometimes afoot, sometimes by motorcycle, stopping on a ridge now and then to scan the silent expanses of forest and rock with his binoculars. Many a California outdoorsman came to know him by his nickname, "the Phantom Rider." Fewer knew his real name, Clinton Hester, and his mission: he was searching...
...State John Foster Dulles pushed through a resolution opposing Communist domination of any Latin American nation. The disapproval among Che's friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz caved in without a fight, Guevara...
Their neighbors were astonished; they had seemed such normal folk when they settled in Benson, mostly during the past six months, and built their attractive houses-about 30 of them-and their neat stucco church. But now the houses were shut and silent in the summer sun, even the dogs and cats were gone, and their automobiles-mostly new station wagons -stood in the driveways...
...Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Rudolph Valentino's final film, Son of the Sheik, opens a summer series of condensed silent sagas. This one co-stars Vilma Banky...
...traditional anti-Harvard faction remained largely silent during discussion of the proposal. Councillor Al Vellucci, noted for his proposal to turn the Yard into a parking lot, sided with the majority in the lopsided decision...